Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Saturday, January 28, 2012

George Romney, the father of Mitt Romney, once told his friends "I think you ought to listen to [Saul] Alinsky," according to a biography of the former Michigan governor and auto executive by T. George Harris. George Romney met Alinsky after the Detroit riots of 1967, when Romney was leading the state. "It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people," George Romney said afterward. "Maybe the time has come to hear new voices."

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The smoking gun. Romney has friendly meeting with Alinsky.

conservativebyte.com

Here are better pictures.

www.buzzfeed.com

W already know know obummers was a communist. Apple.. tree..

anybody?

Alinsky cleans up well.

W already know know obummers was a communist. Apple.. tree..

retarded teabagger?

"Was Romney's Father a Marxist?"

Don't know but Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a communist and the OMG (Obama Media Group) tells us Bush's grandfather was a Nazi. Not to mention Pelosi's warm welcome from President Bashar Assad.

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"Saul Alinsky...hic....I'll drink to that"
--- Tater ---

Romney Sr was no more a Marxist than I was a Yippie due to my association with Abbie Hoffman

Frank Marshall Davis

*drink*

Earth to KBM:

If you made a list of America's 1,000 biggest problems?

'Communism' wouldn't even make the list.

Realize you are just spewing the RW rhetoric that's been passed down for generations now but it's time someone told you that you look like a moron when you do that.

Be Well.

Was Spud's car a Valiant? :)>

(he so non...chalant about damages...)

"Saul Alinsky...hic....I'll drink to that"
#6 | Posted by KBM

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#16
yeahasss me nither

spite-o-the-fact

o' me - swigging -

from Abbie's Yago (or whuh) jug circa 1969

Plaza de La Americas UF G'ville

www.youtube.com

jerry was around somewhere...

4.bp.blogspot.com

don' y'all missum all?

www.altmanphoto.com

sorry make that re: Gimme #7

He (G. Rom) was a
- seemimgly - powerful presence
in that era - like we don't seem to see
anymore. Just the 'president' (fwiw) and not all his
men...

from the wiki...
Romney was a strong supporter of the American Civil Rights Movement. He briefly represented moderate Republicans against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater during the 1964 U.S. presidential election. He requested the intervention of federal troops during the 1967 Detroit riot.

Romney was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1968. While initially a front-runner, he proved an ineffective campaigner, and fell behind Richard Nixon in polls. Following a mid-1967 remark that his earlier support for the Vietnam War had been due to a "brainwashing" by U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his campaign faltered even more, and he withdrew from the contest in early 1968. Once elected president, Nixon appointed Romney Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Romney's ambitious plans for housing production increases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs, were modestly successful but often thwarted by Nixon. Romney left the administration at the start of Nixon's second term in 1973.

"Romney's ambitious plans for housing production increases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs, were modestly successful but often thwarted by Nixon."

Housing for the poor? Desegregation?

Sounds like a pinko for sure.

Oops, almost forgot.....

In the 1950s Romney was building fuel-efficient cars that were affordable for working families.

So the bottom line is Mitt and his family have been part of the problem for years. Go figure!

"Following a mid-1967 remark that his earlier support for the Vietnam War had been due to a "brainwashing" by U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his campaign faltered even more, and he withdrew from the contest in early 1968."

He was a good man who told the truth when as soon as he learned what it was, too bad so many Americans were so easily mislead into wars for nothing.

think back to each and every comment from libfux when obama's old man was talked about....and each one of those goes for this thread..

if this were ABOUT obamas old man they would react just like they did before...convulsions of anger....

SOOOOO the life of this thread is short at best...

AMERICAN Motors

en.wikipedia.org

yes give us back the

Rambler

static.ddmcdn.com

keep this one tho -

www.classic-car-history.com

Poppa Romney was right. It's always good to listen to more than the same old voices; if you can.

George Romney was a very decent man. Although he was a Republican, was concerned with the welfare of more than just his own. In an era when he wasn't expecting his compensation from American Motors to be 300 to 1 to his hourly workers. Back when former President Dwight Eisenhower was still alive and revered and Americans still had a sense of common purpose. Back when the Republican Party stood more for lifting all boats and keeping the middle class strong.

His son (the current incarnation of Mitt) is the epitome of the selfish and narrow minded Republican Party of today, thanks to the loudest voices chasing out the pragmatic patriots who'd have never dreamed of holding the good faith and credit of the U.S. or unemployment benefits hostage.

We can thank Alinsky and people like him for the contentious nature of our body politic today. (There is only the fight). Plus having the most polarizing president EVER.

That said, the Republicans better learn that the Democrats don't want to get along they want to kick the shit out of them and learn to fight fire with fire. The Democrats consider Republicans (and traditional America) the 'enemy' and we conservatives better learn that and respond appropriately.

More memes and creation of fake bogeymen...

Interesting article :

www.csmonitor.com

Bush's grandfather was a Nazi.

Actually just Hitler's financier.

George Romney was a very decent man. Although he was a Republican... -- #21 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Your blinders are getting in your way. It's been a long time since we've had the opportunity to elect anyone half as good to the presidency.

Obama snorted cocaine, smoked pot (or still does with Michelle), and Biden has skid marks on his tidy whities! WHOOPPEE DOO. The drudge retort is a wiener tonight. LOL!

#25 | Posted by Phoenix

Since you left off the rest of the "Although he was a Republican ..." sentence, you failed to mention I was making a point about the difference between GOP that used to be and the GOP that's been taken over by crazies.

O.K., everyone say after me "President Mitt Romney". Has a nice ring to it doesn't it.

After his defeat in November Obama can go back to Chicago and open up a crack stand. Then maybe he can figure out how operating a business works.

"I think you ought to listen to [Saul] Alinsky,"

So why do you think George Romney (If he said it at all) meant it as people should do what Alinsky was saying.

If he (G.R.) said it ,it could very well have been the same as if some person in work was talking about killing people all the time and everybody was just laughing at the person, until somebody said " I think you should listen to Skippy" as in if you don't something bad might happen......and here we are...something bad has happened its called liberalism.

....NOPE IN NOVEMBER.... Its OK not to listen to Obama, only the drones are any way.

"If the (G.R.) said it ,it could very well have been the same as... ""

It COULD have been, but from the context it's obviously not.

Spin if you will, tho'.

"Don't know but Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a communist and the OMG (Obama Media Group) tells us Bush's grandfather was a Nazi. Not to mention Pelosi's warm welcome from President Bashar Assad."

The Obama Media Group? A new corporation to join the five that own pretty much all media in the (western) world? You know, Viacom, Disney, Universal-Vivendi, News Corp, Bertelsmann? As powerful as those? No, we're not a corporatist society at all?

Okay, my own media comment aside, um, we've been hearing about Bush's grandfather being a Nazi* since long before we ever heard of Obama (well, except maybe people in Illinois). It's pretty stupid to assert this nonsense about the OMG. Never mind that I haven't heard anything in the MSM (if that's what you mean by OMG; your snideness isn't easy to follow) about Grampa Prescott in a damned long time. It's possible I've not been paying attention to the "right sources." I hear a lot more about Davis and Ayers--and Alinsky!!! ah!!!! lock up your daughters!!!--than I do about Prescott Bush and his associations.

* Probably more accurately, a Nazi sympathizer; probably even more accurately, a businessman who didn't give a shit about politics and saw an opportunity to make money.

Ultimately, Romney's dad liking Alinsky's ideas, if he did, is probably about as meaningless as Obama's dad being a communist or my stepfather being a spouse and child abuser. Our fathers are not us, though they probably have some influence. But you know, think it through--sometimes that influence is "in the negative." Sometimes, we think, I do NOT want to be like that.

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